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Canadians Bring Protest Against Farmed Salmon to Norway

Several thousand people came to Victoria, BC, calling on the Canadian government to move salmon farms into closed containment to protect wild salmon. A group of Canadians visited Oslo to bring this message to the Cermaq annual shareholder meeting.
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Global Delegation Demands Greater Protection of Wild Salmon, Adoption of Closed Containment Technology

The Pure Salmon Campaign submitted a shareholder resolution urging Cermaq, one of the world’s largest producers of farmed salmon, to relocate its open-net cage salmon farms onto land and to significantly restructure its management team.
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Pure Salmon Campaign Gears up for Cermaq, Marine Harvest Shareholder Meetings

Members of the Pure Salmon Campaign will travel to Norway later this month to ask Cermaq and Marine Harvest, the world's two largest producers of farmed salmon, to end environmental degradation and keep the farmed fish separate from wild salmon.
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Pure Salmon Campaign Urges Cermaq's CEO to Step Down, Hand Delivers Resignation Demand

The Pure Salmon Campaign today called for the resignation of Geir Isaksen, CEO of Cermaq, one of the world’s two largest producers of farmed salmon. The campaign will deliver the demand later today at Cermaq’s Canadian headquarters in Campbell River, British Columbia.
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The Problem

Our oceans are in trouble. Uncontrolled fishing has brought many species to the brink of extinction, while pollution from farms, cities, and factories is making other commercially important seafood unsafe to eat.